Subject: Diskless boot strangeness
To: None <tcalderw@BBN.COM>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/14/1995 19:15:06
> Date:     Tue, 14 Nov 95 15:48:00 EST
> From: Tom Calderwood <tcalderw@BBN.COM>
> Sender: owner-port-sun3@netbsd.org
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> X-Loop: port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG
> 
> I have a 3/50 booting diskless, which gets to the second-stage boot:
> 
> >b le()                                    
> Boot: le(0,0,0) 
> Using IP Address 192.168.246.6 = C0A8F606
> Booting from tftp server at 192.168.246.2 = C0A8F602
> Downloaded 12600 bytes from tftp server.
> 
> >> NetBSD netboot [$Revision: 1.1.1.1 $]
> Using IP Address 192.168.246.6 = C0A8F606
> boot: client IP address: 192.168.246.6
> boot: client name: nimrod2.bbn.com
> 
> and stops.  A tcpdump shows the client to be doing:
> 
> 20:43:53.842793 arp-#25186 for proto #28516 (46) hardware #28018 (50)
> 20:43:57.842653 arp-#25186 for proto #28516 (46) hardware #28018 (50)
> 20:44:05.842516 arp-#25186 for proto #28516 (46) hardware #28018 (50)
> 
> What on Earth is going on?

Looks like the netboot program might have been trashed...
The one in the latest binary snapshot works for me.
I'll send if you like...

Gordon